⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”Hungarian born cellist János Starker was still a child when he started studying at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he knew Bartók and Kodály. Starker became a great evangelist for Kodály’s major cello works, making two recordings of the Duo for Violin and Ccello, and here’s a third, live in Sofia in 1986 with violinist Elmira Darvarova, who writes about performing with Starker just days before she escaped the scrutiny of Bulgarian security and absconded to the west (becoming the Met Opera’s first female concertmaster).
“It’s a potent partnership, alongside Starker’s 1950 recording of Kodály’s Solo Sonata, newly remastered with immersive immediacy.”
– BBC Music Magazine, August 2025
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